The competition requires students to use applied science and engineering skills to meet technical challenges similar to those that scientists and engineers face every day.

Unfortunately, during the past year the scientist had faced a growing conviction that he was running out of ideas.

In trying to decipher the evolution of tetrapods from fish, scientists face formidable problems.

In most cases of improper conduct, scientists merely face restrictions on doing further drug tests.

Every scientist doing basic research faces daunting moral questions about the uses to which that work can be put.

But he insisted that scientists trying to divine where conditions will be in coming decades face huge hurdles.

That was the problem scientists at the University of Barcelona faced.

This is no longer the case: scientists today are facing a similar dilemma!

But scientists at that time faced a conundrum.

The scientist and his scar faced henchman were bent over the chart table.